JEToon

They won't for 101 reasons, but given where they are and what they need in terms of reaching a point of a quick fix who would coach and make them competent quick they could do a lot worse than Rafa

I am really struggling with the idea a player who has averaged 1 assist every 12 games in his career should be playing as a 10, there is next to nothing 10ish about the way Isak plays, which I suppose is why he is kicking on 26 and played under multiple managers who have never really played him there. If he was a 10, he has an assist yesterday, but he didn't have the vision for it, he is a modern day main center forward all day

I wouldn’t say sack him now, but I think he is in bother, things need to turn around for him. We have been really poor this season and yes the window plays a part but the general performance of players, trajectory, it feels wrong. I clearly hope it turns around but it doesn't really feel like it will. In terms of what PIF will be thinking, I think common sense alone tells you what is being produced this season will be miles away from what they expect

What Mitchell said was, "I think the skill, whether it be personal philosophy or the demands of financial fair play (PSR) has to come into play where you have to find undervalued talent at a certain age profile" I would argue Liverpool pretty much done that under Klopp other than a couple of additions, Salah fits that profile, Bruno and Isak fit that profile. It just seems like a pretty sensible strategy, it is creating a narrative that isn't there to box it into a Brighton model, it can be a million miles from that if it wants to be

There is a pretty reasonable chance they will, it is going to a period of sustained success which will likely mean titles and CL finals before players will solely wish to play for us. It won't be a great shock if either want to move on to other things, they could have done that even if we had signed Olise, Guehi and Guler, it will take a long time before we are the absolute pinnacle of players careers

I think that statement sounds great without context and in the form Miggy is in, but doesn't account for the form he was in, the PSR constraints placed on us to both make an addition in that area and also strip us of a player who would have played there I don't think top tier is our marker at the moment so don't have great concerns about missing out on players who are currently top tier, we haven't for the most part really bought players of that profile, we are a club looking to sign players projecting to be that and given the league we play in, wages we can offer and what the club threatens to be I am pretty confident we will be able to sign players of that profile for a fair while yet before they starting seeing us as a no go situation.

It doesn't, it suggests Howe has a high standard of player he wants to bring to Newcastle which is a good thing. A RW simply better than Murphy or Almiron, great, then what? We are hostage to that player for 4 years and a massive contract, or show a bit of patience, take a bit of time and build it over time which has always been the clear strategy from the club

Open to question statement that. A squad that becomes bloated and loaded with 5th, 6th, 7th choice signing targets likely ends up missing out on Europe often

I don't think it is an excuse personally, I think the general premise from Howe is pretty logical, he doesn't want to just sign players for the sake of it.

The intent of Gordon and Barnes was great, still is, we should absolutely want two players of that quality fighting it out for a place. We as a club plan on having a really heavy workload, we want to be in the deep end of every single competition we play and in Europe, to be playing 2 or 3 games a week for months on end, that means a squad. It is also clear we did want to address RW, so much doesn't come out about Olise without there being something in it, if we wanted Olise we patently want AN other RW I respect the fact that Eddie seems intent on holding a standard and not just body grabbing for the sake of it, that's admirable. It would appear we had a form of idea PSR might be up in the air, had been slightly blindsided by all of this as well and it has impacted us, as well as the lack of players moving on, it isn't like we simply haven't wanted to address other areas it has just been far more a challenge to us than it should have been, and intentionally so by other sides in the league

Pretty gutted for him. There is next to no benefit to him in terms of being weak or missing games, he is going to get nothing from that he is damaging value to himself for any other contract he might get somewhere else. He has also just always struck me as someone who genuinely just really likes playing for us and can see the achievement it is to him It's a shame how his time with us is played out, he has sadly become a bit of a handbrake to us though

It made an absolute load of sense to sign a raft of English players and build a young core to the side, more so with making the Champions League. We had to meet measures in terms of HG players or we would have been in the absolute mud. We have a club that was neglected for years in terms of relevant care, investment and love in youth so we are playing catch up on that front in terms of players as well, we had to some degree manufacture youth and home grown players, and it cost a lot of money With putting in place a core of young English players it means we can expand on markets we can look at to compliment them Not to go little Englander either but I like us having an English core and players and a bit of local personality in the squad.

I don’t particularly enjoy the pushed narrative lately of Longstaff v Tonali, the idea the performances of the side hinges on either playing one or the other and the general idea that Longstaff playing should be seen as something to fear in terms of the Atheltic article and what Eddie is thinking internally does nothing for me. They both have a use.

I am all for a manager having tactical flexibility but I think if you go 5-3-2 you very quickly regress back to the same issue we have now, which is poor recruitment and a lack of supporting goal threat around the box, and you get there very quickly. I would also question how much it actually achieves in terms of how we play anyway, Trippier, when playing, in particular is already in reality an attack loaded RWB as it is, a lot of play is loaded to him being where he would be in a 5 as a wing back anyway, the fullbacks aren't hostage to going forward they do get involved. I think if we go 5 at the back all it is really doing is putting Kelly for instance on the park at the expense of a more forwarded minded player. When I picture us playing a lot of other formations it always ends with a similar issue coming back, who is scoring and it is only really 2 bodies on the park in a 5 at the back you'd put much money on, Isak and Gordon or Barnes if he was on instead of Gordon, and then really, that's it. Where we are now, by the time a 5 at the back is "coached" and drilled we will be reaching the January window anyway and would be as well holding out with what we have and making additions, it is probably where Howe is well, I don't think he is actually in a place to alter much to bring it back to a form of relevance to him specifically.

The slight issue with, if we had beat Brighton is, if you deal in what you think a result should have been then for as much poor fortune as there was in that game, and in reality it wasn't that much it was poor finishing and a very flat last 30 minutes which is an issue when you are 1-0 down, there has been good fortune in other games to some extent, we were by no means great v Wolves, Spurs or Southampton There is as much to say the Brighton result was a result that caught up with performances. We haven't looked like the 5th best side in the county this season, at all in all honesty.

I would still take Guehi, he looks a player a bit out of form following a summer where he was linked with a move and was faced with being slightly destabilized, a bit like Gordon who I am still happy enough for us to have, it happens. Elanga for a fee being spoke of between what seems to range from 35 to 50 million feels wrong, should be finding other options somewhere other than that

You literally only have to watch the reaction of Burn to the goal to see how the situation was supposed to be managed, he is, rightly, p*issed off at the other 3, he isn't sprinting back to be in position, he isn't holding a hand up and offering an apology, he is wondering, like the majority of people, what it is the other 3 are playing at.

by far and away the most coherent and sensible post you’ve made.

Of course I mean free kicks, corners and goal kicks, restart of play is a massive, massive part of a game. You are speaking in what it is you think to be true, not what was or is. Ederson and City use restarts as a massive attacking tool, and do so often. They target set areas in doing so they don’t just see how far Ederson can kick it. A lot of your post is a bit “I don’t like Dan Burn” you’re past speaking about the specific incident and Brighton goal and what Burn has been tactically tasked to do in the goal, he was doing what he was asked, and done it without issue. The goal is a chain of events which he’s not that involved in. He wasn’t being asked to use his pace or be Virgil Van Dijk, you’ve regressed to talking gibberish and muddying what was being spoke about with about 19 other things. The point you don’t agree with I’ve made stopped existing to you a few posts ago.

It’s not, the part which is bollocks is you saying for instance Haaland, doesn’t drop deep, I didn’t say he drops deep, you have. Every time Man City kick off he (Haaland) is tasked with being around the half way line, i.e “deep” to win flick ons which is when Burn was up his arse For any set play, of course Burn will be tasked with following, more often than not, a sides largest most physical attacking threat. its literally sense, you’re saying he’s slow, so why in Christs name would he then be on for instance Wellbeck from a flick on, because that doesn’t make sense.

You’re transposing what you think is true, not what was true. Burn was up Haalands arse against City in the in middle of the park, no player just stands statically in one area for an entire game i.e Haaland can’t in any world just stand in the 18 yard box, during phases of play he moves, nor should Burn just stand in one place football isn’t like that, during a game he will end up in a “forward midfield position” as a natural consequence of being up the park for set plays etc and so on. He also doesn’t need pace when he’s looking to win a ball that’s feasibly going to played in the air. It made perfect sense for him to be where he was for the goal, on Ferguson, boxing that off Brighton which he did. You are taking what you want to be true rather than dealing with the what was.

He is man marking someone who’s moved to the halfway line, he’s there to be on that players arse if they win the ball and be tight to them to stop them turning and having time and space or wining it in the air, he is nothing like out of position. He literally spent a game doing the exact same thing to Haaland. He is our biggest most physical player he will clearly be tasked with following and marking other sides biggest and physical players when the ball is in the air, it’s sense. its a 3 v 2 scenario left behind him that’s a complete botched job, not what Burn is doing The rest of your post is transposing what you think of him on this scenario, it’s apples and oranges

he dropped seeing the trajectory of the ball, he’s man marking someone he won’t be closer to the box if his players moved to the halfway line , you’re asking him to cover about 40 yards in 4 seconds and leave a player exposed, it’s not sense he’s next to no fault in the goal

marking Ferguson, it’s not that complicated. It’s odd to see the stick Burn has been getting for the goal, the situation left of 3 v 2 should have been manageable it’s far more on Schaar than Burn.

I think the atmosphere reflects the confusion of the club at the moment. Sort of feels like a lot are lost with where we are and where this is meant to be. It’s all just kind of in a state of treading water at the moment it feels like.